Apollo's Eye by Denis Cosgrove

Apollo's Eye by Denis Cosgrove

He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity.

Well written, copiously illustrated, and with an excellent section of notes at the end of each chapter, the author and publishers of this book are to be commended-- David Cooper Geography The richly embroidered garment he has woven together provides a really stimulating argument for anyone interested in the links between representation and political process... Apollo's Eye is constantly thought-provoking. -- Chris Perkins Society of Cartographers Bulletin Apollo's Eye will appeal to a broad range of readers, in part because its subject is so keenly relevant to current world events. Cosgrove's erudition is as impressive as ever... Cosgrove shows convincingly how successive understandings of the globe were inflected and distinguished by new technologies and techniques of analysis and representation. -- David L. Hays Cultural Geographies 2004 A fascinating and unique history. -- Sylvia Bender Western Association of Map Libraries 2006

Denis Cosgrove is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous books include The Iconography of Landscape, The Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change and Its Cultural Representations in Sixteenth-Century Italy, Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, and Mappings.

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ISBN 13	9780801874444
ISBN 10	0801874440
Title	Apollo's Eye
Author	Denis Cosgrove
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	2003-12-12
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of PROSE Award for Best Book in Geography and Earth Sciences 2004 (United States)
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